Here's Robert Garofalo, of Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago: “I’ll turn to the child and be like, so yeah what gender identity do you have?” Dr. Robert Garofalo of @LurieChildrens hospital proudly admits the horrible truth behind the process of transitioning children. pic.twitter.com/40s97I5TyI — Mythinformed (@MythinformedMKE) May 27, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js A thread by Dennis Noel Kavanagh:…

Helen Joyce in The Critic: Of the aphorisms attributed to the Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, none is more famous than that you should build a golden bridge over which your enemies can retreat. If they are backed into a corner, the idea goes, their only way out will be through you. But if running…

In the Times today, an extract from JK Rowling's essay in The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht, due out tomorrow: Looking back now, and notwithstanding how unpleasant it’s been at times, I see that outing myself as gender-critical brought far more positives than negatives. The most important benefit of speaking out was that I was free…

It's Scotland. Again: More than 95 per cent of Scottish secondary schools are telling children they can self-identify their gender, an investigation has found. In a report, For Women Scotland, the campaign group, claimed that an “unscientific contested belief system” had become “deeply embedded” within classrooms as a result of controversial SNP government guidance and…

A reminder of another war… 8-year-old Mykhailo waits in vain for his father come home from bombed supplies store in Kharkiv Now he has to undergo DNA testing himself, as his father is likely among the victims. Authorities fear they’ll have to sift through ashes to find remains and identify the deceased. pic.twitter.com/X0PVmpeJnm — Tymofiy…

Natan Sharansky in Tablet, on the crucial role universities have played, and are still playing, in the demonisation of Israel and the sudden explosion into the open since Oct 7th of naked antisemitism: Twenty years ago, just after the second intifada, I went on a tour of American and Canadian campuses. Shaken by what I…

Following on from the US students in Tablet on their campus experiences since Oct 7th, here are some testimonies from the UK collected by Eliana Silver in the JC: Anonymous, University of Leeds: “It began very shortly after October 7. The most notable incident was the ‘Free Palestine’ graffiti that appeared on the Hillel campus…

From the Times: An Oxford University student has resigned as vice-president of her college committee, claiming that “Jewish people are not welcome on campus” after allegations of antisemitism. Madeline Bryant, 20, quit St Hugh’s College’s JCR, a student committee, and said that the pro-Palestinian protest encampment at the university was part of a “growing tide…

Marjory Collins, February 1943. "New York, New York. Italian-American fruit stand at First Avenue and Tenth Street." [Photo: Shorpy/Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information] The same old grump seen here.

On Ru Paul's Drag Race: For those who wonder what on earth they are looking at, this is a woman who has cut her breasts off and now identifies as a man. She's a "trans drag queen", ie pretends to be a man who pretends to be a woman. Here she's acting out her double…